hook `em while they're young

[rone]

What the fucking fuck.

STAUNTON, Virginia (AP) -- When Heather and Logan Ward's son entered public kindergarten this fall, they were shocked to discover that pupils were taken from class to a nearby church for weekly Bible lessons.

[...]

Jack Hinton, president of the local private group that offers the lessons, attributes the opposition to a small minority, many of them newcomers to the valley. Without religious classes, he said, "kids get into trouble and have no moral structure on which to combat drugs, sex, pornography and all that."

I'm really not feeling witty right now.  I'd rather just throw Bibles at this fuckhead until he achieves enlightenment.

Comments

[richtermom.livejournal.com]

Kids get opted out for all sorts of personal stuff through schools or outside of school. I was excused for piano classes. A couple kids were excused for speech therapy. Other kids were excused for music classes. Just to exacerbate the question, I know that my first grade school (public) now rents space from my second grade school (Catholic) for their K-4 kids.

I guess I'd be a lot more annoyed if all parents in a public school could agree on a method of teaching kids to be *moral* good citizens instead of pablum sucking humanist egotists who grow up to swear loudly on the city bus, as is the case now. Maybe once the heavy duty fundies are out of the classroom, perhaps a moderate curriculum could be developed for the other kids to discuss how to be good citizens without having an uproar raised about not including religion-specific programming.

[denshi.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time, indeed a very short while ago, I believe there was such a thing as civics classes.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I had `em, but that was in Ecuador...